Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images An ongoing look at the 2024 season through the WPA lens. When you go down an internet rabbit hole, you can’t be entirely sure what is going to be on the other side. When the corner of the internet that you enter involves the intersection of Baseball Reference and Fangraphs looking at baseball statistics, that is doubly true. Baseball … [Read more...] about 2024 Heroes and Goats: A look at a big WPA game from this season
BCB After Dark: Where goest thou, Sasaki?
Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks where you think Roki Sasaki will sign and whether the Cubs have a chance. Welcome back to BCB After Dark: your cool nightspot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the fall chill air. We’ve got some warm music and conversation in here. If … [Read more...] about BCB After Dark: Where goest thou, Sasaki?
Cub Tracks in the driver’s seat
Photo by David Becker/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Roki Sasaki is posting. That could help define the market, whatever that really means. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB … [Read more...] about Cub Tracks in the driver’s seat
Cubs free agent target: Max Fried
Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Cubs say they might go after more pitching. So why not? Starting pitching was one of the strengths of the 2024 Cubs, particularly lefthanders Shōta Imanaga and Justin Steele. So why not go after another left, free agent Max Fried, who’s spent the last eight years with the Atlanta Braves? Fried has been pretty … [Read more...] about Cubs free agent target: Max Fried
Baseball America announces their Top 10 Cubs prospects for 2025
Matt Shaw | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK The highly-respected publication revealed their picks for the Cubs top prospects Baseball America, the venerated publication that has been ranking minor league prospects since the eighties, came out with their picks for the Top Ten Cubs prospects on Monday. While the actual rankings and scouting reports are … [Read more...] about Baseball America announces their Top 10 Cubs prospects for 2025